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PHOENIX — Baseball America’s best tools surveys are a great way to see which Astros prospects have caught the eyes of some of the best evaluators out there — the managers who respond to the surveys.

They have become, given how fast things are changing in the Astros’ system, though, a poor way to actually find the players.

Several Astros and now ex-Astros were rated the best at some small aspect of the game or overall projection. But now none of them, exactly zero of them, are where the surveys, compiled around midseason, list them to be.

Still, it’s a good sense of where the managers have placed these players either in isolated tools or the bigger picture.

California League/Florida State League* (High A)
Kody Hinze – Best strike zone judgment
Jonathan Singleton* – Best power prospect*Singleton was a Phillies prospect for Clearwater when the survey was done.